IMPORTANT!
Notice that
all those people listed as
"Professional persons"
are men!
Most professions were
closed to women in the
Victorian period.

The professional
men at the beginning of Victoria's reign had to work to earn
a living, but they were men who were educated. Here we can see the lawyers
or attorneys who were trained in the
law, and the surgeons who would look
after the health of local people for a fee.
In early Victorian days the role of the surgeon was changing. Up to this
time a surgeon had not had a great deal of training, but he could pull
teeth and set broken limbs. Later on in the reign doctors would get much
more training, and the surgeon became the doctor with special training
in carrying out operations.

Notice that the bankers
and schoolteachers are not included
as professional people as they would be today. The Charity Schools would
offer education to the children of working families in the town, but in
1835 a great many of these families would have needed to send their children
to work to earn money to keep the family..